Re:Investigating Erlang by reading its system calls
by lostcolony on Friday May 13, 2016 @03:07PM
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This.
Erlang isn't a bare programming language like C, or even a high level, but still fundamentally simple language like Python.
It isn't just an intermediary bytecode running in a VM, like Java, that maps bytecode instructions to OS instructions.
It is instead more like a Smalltalk environment or similar; an entire ecosystem running for the specific purpose of providing you a very particular kind of programming environment.
Erlang isn't a bare programming language like C, or even a high level, but still fundamentally simple language like Python.
It isn't just an intermediary bytecode running in a VM, like Java, that maps bytecode instructions to OS instructions.
It is instead more like a Smalltalk environment or similar; an entire ecosystem running for the specific purpose of providing you a very particular kind of programming environment.